Do not remove: empty changelists are not deleted on loosing their active status.

Display Option dialogs when these commands are invoked

In this area, specify whether you want IntelliJ IDEA to ask you for confirmation when invoking the commands selected below.

The availability of commands depends on a particular version control system.

Use controls in this area to restore the original settings if you have suppressed showing operation-specific option dialog boxes by selecting the Do not show this dialog in the future checkbox.

Show Clear Read-Only Status dialog box

Select this checkbox to have IntelliJ IDEA explicitly require cancellation of the read-only status when you open a file in the editor and try to modify it.

The read-only status can be cleared in two ways:

Using the current VCS: the file is added to a changelist

Using a file system: the file is not added to the changelist.

This option is relevant for the version control systems that separate check-out from opening for editing.

Restore worksapce on branch switching

Select this option if you want your workspace, i.e. a set of opened files, the current run configuration and breakpoints associated with a certain branch, to be restored when you switch to that branch.

Show patch in explorer after creation

Use this drop-down list to define the IntelliJ IDEA behavior when a patch is created. The available options are:

Yes: if this option is selected, native file manager always opens to show the patch file.

No: if this option is selected, the native file manager will not open.

Ask: if this option is selected, IntelliJ IDEA will display a dialog box informing about successful patch creation, and a suggestion to locate the patch file in the native file manager.